This article is a guide to show you how to convert 3D Blu-ray movie to MKV to watch in Samsung Gear VR Unit.

"I have a few 3D Blu-rays that I would love to watch in Oculus Cinema. My understanding is that most 3D Blu-rays are in the "frame packed" format but Samsung Gear VR requires either side-by-side or top-to-bottom (top down). Is there any way to convert a frame packed Blu-ray to a SBS or TD?"

According to the question of the user, the short and key answer is to convert your 3D Blu-ray to Samsung compatible video format first. So it is important for us to know that Samsung Gear VR by default supports most common file formats including MKV, MP4, AVI, and FLV. Ok, now the question becomes: how to convert 3D Blu-ray movies to MKV, MP4, AVI, or FLV?

Here we recommend you a professional 3D Blu-ray converter- Pavtube ByteCopy. It can help you to rip/convert 3D Blu-ray movie from Blu-ray disc and Blu-ray movie folder and output SBS, Top-Bottom, Anaglyph 3D MKV video supported by Samsung Gear VR unit/Oculus Cinema with the best quality easily. Besides, with it, you can output the subtitle file of your loved movie and multi-trackaudio video.

Launch the professional 3D Blu-ray to Gear VR converter. Click the button on top left corner to add 3D Blu-ray movie to it. Double click the video, you can preview the movie in the right side.

Step 2. Select an output format for Gear VR

Click "Format" bar and find "3D Video", there are a lot of format options for you. "MKV Side-by-Side 3D Video (*.mkv)" is recommended.

Step 3. Start to convert 3D Blu-ray to Gear VR

Click "Convert" button, 3D Blu-ray to Samsung Gear VR converter will start to work. Just be patient, it will not take you long time. After the conversion, place your video files into the folder named "My Videos" on your MicroSD card.

To watch your 3D videos, however, there is an additional step, and it’s not entirely straightforward.

The following will allow for perfect 3D playback of videos set up in a SBS format. SBS format means the left and right video channels are contained within the same file and appears as a near-mirror image when played back using a standard media player. To view your SBS 3D video files on your Gear VR, follow these steps:

1. Navigate to Oculus Cinema from the main menu2. Navigate to "My Videos" from the Oculus Cinema content library menu3. Select the 3D video you wish to view (if you followed the above steps it should have a "3D" label in the upper righthand corner)4. Choose the cinema mode to begin playback